Family to honor late daughter with charity race

5K run, 1-mile walk are Sunday in Seaside Park

12:26 AM,
May 15, 2014

Kristen Shafer Englert passed away from a brain aneurysm in November, just weeks after giving birth to her first child. Her family organized the first Kristen's Legacy of Love, a run/walk to be held Sunday morning in Seaside Park.

Written by

Russ Zimmer
| @russzimmer

Married for only one year and a mother for just three weeks, Kristen Shafer Englert had a bright future until an unknown medical condition suddenly surfaced.

"It's been almost six months, but sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. Sometimes it feels like it was years ago," said Englert's mother, Kathy Shafer.

Last November, Englert, 25, succumbed to a hemorrhage in her brain caused by an aneurysm. The bulging blood vessel had gone undetected until it ruptured, leading to the death of the Goddard School teacher and a master's degree student. ...